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You fall into the ripe barley and its sharp stalks cut your face and hands: lose 1 ENDURANCE point. Freed from your mental control, the Brozal scrambles away along the muddy ditch in a desperate bid to escape. Before you can command it to return, it has disappeared back into the vast sea of wheat.

Wearily you turn and head north on foot. The surrounding barley is a young crop, and you are able to see the roof of a Drodarin farmhouse peeking above it, less than 50 yards distant.

If you wish to investigate this farmhouse, turn to 73.

If you choose to avoid the farmhouse, turn to 37.